{"id":287,"date":"2019-11-04T13:37:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/?p=287"},"modified":"2019-11-04T13:37:29","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T13:37:29","slug":"elijah-says-abs-is-a-team-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/elijah-says-abs-is-a-team-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Elijah says ABS is a team in progress"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Head Coach of Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) Ilorin FC, Yomi Elijah, has called on the supporters of the club not to be panicked after a back to back defeat to Sunshine Stars of Akure and Crown FC of Ogbomoso. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elijah said this after his team lost 2-5 to visiting Sunshine Stars of Akure on Monday in Ilorin in a friendly match.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Saraki Boys had lost 0-2 to Crown FC in Ogbomoso on Sunday before the Monday defeat to Sunshine Stars. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n former Kogi United handler, said most of the work to be done have not \nstarted but the games are good for him because he is getting an \nopportunity to see the players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are still a team in progress, these are young guys, we have not started work on the boys yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We\n are only taking advantage of the friendly matches because many of our \nopponents are ready and we still have a little bit of work to do before \nthe season starts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We\n are going to search for more grade A matches to see more players and \naccess the ones we have already seen to know their readiness” Elijah \nsaid. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\n said he has seen the players and explained a few of them will have to \ngo but he hasn’t taken a decision on who is going and who will stay. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

ABS\n had in a training tour of Lagos recently defeated MFM FC 4-1, played a \none-all draw with Ikon Allah Academy, drew goalless with FC Bethel. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n had lost back to back 0-1 each to both Niger Tornadoes of Minna and \nCrown FC of Ogbomoso in Ilorin before the training tour of Lagos. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\n Nigeria National League (NNL) side will on Wednesday play La Planet \nAcademia of Ilorin and host Kwara Football Academy on Friday. 
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The Head Coach of Abubakar Bukola Saraki (ABS) Ilorin FC, Yomi Elijah, has called on the supporters of the club not to be panicked after a back to back defeat to Sunshine Stars of Akure and Crown FC of Ogbomoso.  Elijah said this after his team lost 2-5 to visiting Sunshine Stars of Akure on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,2],"tags":[27,43,25],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=287"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onwardnews24.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}